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Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

CHM celebrates Rustin at 100

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2012

The Chicago History Museum hosted a presentation on Bayard Rustin, the late African-American and gay activist who organized the famed 1963 March on Washington D.C. The event, “Bayard Rustin at 100,” was part of the museum’s “Out at CHM” series.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 7, 2012

Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?

Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 23, 2012

Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Newt Gingrich: Polyamorist?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2012

Caught between people who wanted me to be part of their polyamorous relationship, my response has usually been to flee. Really, people, can we just fuck and let it be?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Fuck Love

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2011

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 8, 2011

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bright Life, Big Sex: The Susie Bright Interview

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 13, 2011

“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 13, 2010

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.